Elizabeth Lowell Auchincloss, M.D.

Elizabeth L. Auchincloss, M.D. is the Vice-Chairman for Graduate Medical Education, Director of Residency Training, and Professor of Clinical Psychiatry. She is also Senior Associate Director, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

Dr. Auchincloss is a graduate of Yale College. She received her M.D. from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and trained in Psychiatry at the Payne Whitney Clinic of the New York Hospital where she was Chief Resident in 1982. She received her certificate in psychoanalysis from the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in 1986. Between 1993-2001, she was an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature in Columbia University

Dr. Auchincloss is a three-time recipient of the Award for Best Voluntary Faculty Teacher given by the residents of the Payne Whitney Clinic, the recipient of the 1998 Klar Award for Best Teacher given by the candidates of the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, the winner of the 1999 Edith Shabsin Award for teaching psychoanalysis from the American Psychoanalytic Association, the 2005 George E. Daniels Award from the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine for contributions to psychoanalysis, and the 2009 George Goldman Award from the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center. From 1991-1997, she served as chairman of the curriculum committee of the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center. She has also served as Chairman of the Committee on Graduate Medical Education at New York Presbyterian Hospital--Weill Cornell Medical Center and on the Committee for Psychotherapy Competencies of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training. She currently represents the American Psychiatric Association on the Residency Review Committee for Psychiatry of the ACGME.

Dr. Auchincloss has served in the past as Editor-in-Chief of the Bulletin of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the New Glossary of Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts (with Eslee Samberg, M.D.) to be published jointly by the American Psychoanalytic Association and Yale University Press. She is a well-known speaker on the subjects of psychoanalytic curriculum and education, psychotherapy education in residency training, the teaching of psychoanalytic concepts and teaching the writings of Freud to college students. She is the author of many book chapters and reviews and has won the Beller Award of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalysis, the Menninger Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Roughton Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association for scholarly work. She is the editor of The Quiet Revolution in American Psychoanalysis: Selected Papers of Arnold M. Cooper, M.D.(London, Brunner-Routledge, 2004) She has published papers in the American Journal of Psychiatry, The Archives of General Psychiatry, the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Her most recent publications include "Teaching Freud to College Students" (with Nathan Kravis, M.D.-International Journal of Psychoanalysis), "Psychoanalysis and homosexuality: Do we need a new theory?" (with Susan C. Vaughan, M.D.-Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association) "Commentary on The Place of Psychoanalytic Treatments within Psychiatry,'" Archives of General Psychiatry and "A re-assessment of psychoanalytic education: Controversies and changes," (with Robert Michels, M.D. International Journal of Psychoanalysis). In March , 2004, she was a Discussant of the Keynote Papers in the Plenary Session of the 43rd Congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association in New Orleans.

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Auchincloss, Elizabeth L. and Vaughan, Susan C. "Psychoanalysis and homosexuality: Do we need a new theory? Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 49(4):1157-86, 2001

Auchincloss, Elizabeth L., "Commentary on ‘The Place of Psychoanalytic Treatments within Psychiatry,'" by Glen Gabbard, Peter Fonagy and John Gunderson, Archives of General Psychiatry 59:501-503, June 2002

Auchincloss, Elizabeth L., (Reporter) "Panel on the Clinical Management of Masochistic Character Traits," Bulletin of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, 23 (3): 104-113,1984

Stern, Gloria J. and Auchincloss, Elizabeth L., (Reporters), "Symposium: The Public and the Private Woman: New Psychotherapeutic Issues," The Bulletin of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, 24 (1-2): 1-19, 1984-5

Auchincloss, Elizabeth L., (Reporter) "The Fifth Andre B. Ballard Lecture: The Past Unconscious and the Present Unconscious: Toward the Development of a Theory of Psychoanalytic Technique," presented by Joseph Sandler, M.D., The Bulletin of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, 26(1-2): 22-29, 1986-87

Auchincloss, Elizabeth L., (Reporter) "The Amorous Death of Romeo and Juliet," presented by John Munder Ross, Ph.D., The Bulletin of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, 27:(1-2):28-37, 1987.

Auchincloss, Elizabeth L., (Reviewer) Theaters of the Mind, by Joyce McDougall, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 36(4):1079-84, 1988

Auchincloss, Elizabeth L., and Michels, Robert, "The Impact of Middle Age on Ambitions and Ideals," in The Middle Years, ed. John Oldham and Robert S. Liebert, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1989, 40-57